Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-04-14
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The NEWS EpIToMIzED.


The NEWS ~EPIToMIZED.
The a~ecomplices OF the railroad thieves
are resorting to threats TO intimidate the
Panhandle railroad authorities.
The steamer Victoria was wrecked yes
tesday on the rookie near Dieppe. France
end twelve passengers drowned.
A telegram from Geneva, p~urporting
to ZONE from . nihiliss sourcs, says that
no notice Of sentence to death has been
sent to the czar.
Blame is still improving. He was
much refreshed yesterday morning after
q good nights rest, and is gaining
strength rapidly.
Yesterday afternoon In the Michigan
house Of representatives, the bill grant
ing women the right to vote IN munici-
pal elections was defeated.
The Pennsylvania senate yesterday
passed the joint resolution proposing q
woman suffrage constitutional amend
ment-yeas "a, nays '16. The ladies'
gallery was crowded during the vote.
Archbishop Croke, 81 Cashel, Ireland,
and all 1.-THE priests Of his diocese have
signed q memorial against the passage
OF the new coercion bill which, the gov
eminent alleges, is a measure calculated
to lead TO greater crime.
]. ]. McGrath's wall paper house, at
LOG and 112 Wabash avenue, Chicago,
q terrated fiye-story marble. front build
ing, burned early yesterday morning
The stock is an entire loss andth build.
ipg is irreparably injured. Loss $50O.OOo
All the evidence in the trial Of Brake
man Schwartz and Watt for the robbery
and murder 81 Express Messenger Mic
hols vas completed at Morris, Illinois
yesterday. The testimony against the
prisoners has been purely oircumstap'
tial.
Advices from different sections in
Texas note the fall OF copious rains fol
800 miles along the Taxas and Pacifi,
RAILROAD west Of Merkel and in the coun-
try norttlof that road. In many places
in Texas rain has not fallen for nearly {
year.
John T.. Raymond wss buried yesser'
day from sfthe little church around
the corner" in New York. The atten
dance was enormous, both OF PROBES
SIGNALS and outsiders. The plain black
c~loth-covefed coffin was almost hidder
from sight by . heap Of floral designs.
The steamer marlborough from Ber.
MEDIA to New York brought the captaii
and twelve seamen and Mrs. WsnamakeI
q lady passenger OF the steamer Sara.
gossa.abandoned at sen. The cast-a-way'
We're picked up exhausted after being
n tho iiiii5tboas uF=swonty.se7an hotafs.
A steamer arrived at Baltimore from
the Rarpahannock river. Virginia, yes
terday, reports the burning OF the vii
lage Of Farmham on Monday. The old
Protestant Episcopal church, built il
colonial days. was among the BUILDING
burned. The population OF the villag,
WAS 800.
The ARRIVALS at Queenstown o
emigrants On their way to the United
States are ct present enormous. Tn,
railways are running special trains Il
accommodate this class OF travel. Th,
number OF smigrants now awaiting
Steamers to carry them to destination ii
already greater than can be housed il
the hotels and boarding honses.
The three constitutional amendment
voted on in California Tuesday were al
defeated. The first provided a metho,
of the selection of chief justice OF th,
supreme court, the second for an in
csease in the salarieH Of supreme judge
and certain superior judges, and th,
third that CITIES OF over 10000 popula
ton be empowered to make their ow,
city charter.
The den OF Q gang Of sawdust swind
lers, in full operation, Was raidad il
New York yesterday and the gang, fon.
in number, Joseph Lite, w. :. Brown
George w. Lesson and George Plots
were looked mp. The police seizei
over $1,000 in new bank notes genuine
and nsny cypress packages OF alleged
bogus money, and SIX dry goods boxel
filed with addressed stamped envelopes
most OF them to the southern and west
ern points.